DRAWING THE LARGER CIRCLE, HOW TO LOVE AND BE LOVED
Jack and Cornelia Addington
The authors claim that it is imperative in our times to send out ever-widening circles of love, especially to those who find it difficult to love.
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"Love, being omnipresent, is the common denominator of all of life. As we express love we immediately find that we have something very definite in common with every part of life."
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"God is love, God is infinite and everywhere present in exactly the same degree."
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"Perfect love casts out fear. Perfect love is right within you, ready to be sent forth in ever-widening circles. Learn how to release that perfect love within that casts out fear."
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"What is love?....It is the sweetness of life; it is the sweet, tender, melting nature of God, flowing up through his seed of life into the creature, and of all things making the creature most like unto himself, both in nature and operation." Isaac Pennington, 'Works', 1681
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"If people seem to be difficult, I silently bless them until enemies become friends – friends who have caused me to experience more love. There is no problem which love cannot heal. For this I give thanks."
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"The Christ in me salutes the Christ in you. The Christ in me understands the Christ in you."
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"None of us achieve emotional maturity until we have learned not only to love our neighbor, to say 'I care' and mean it, but have learned to love ourselves."
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"Ask yourself in everything you do, 'Is this the loving thing to do? Is this the loving answer? Am I letting God's love live through me as I take this step?'"
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"Down deep we know we need to love more."
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"First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others." Thomas a'Kempis, 'The Imitation of Christ'
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"We who thought of ourselves as lonely and forsaken have been loved since the beginning of time."
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"God lives in and through you as love."
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"God's love is always creative. It knows exactly what to do and how to do it. It is through love that all progress and advancements are made."
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"Now, we see that if love does not supplant hate we will destroy ourselves. Hate, resentment and fear are destructive. Love, rightly used, is constructive and it is through love and understanding that a strong and enduring civilization will emerge."
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"Love embraces all. Love forgives all. Love swallows up all of our failures and gives us back its grace. It is so freely given."
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"Love the power of love within you – this is loving God within."
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"The love we realize within ourselves and pass on to others will bring sanity to a disturbed world."
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"Love is a fire that kindles its first embers in the narrow nook of the private bosom, tossing a wandering spark out of another private heart, glows and enlarges until it forms and feeds upon the multitudes of men and women, upon the universal heart of all, and so lights the whole world, and all nature with its generous light." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"To love is to partake of the very nature of God, to be one with God."
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"The Path is constructed by the aspirant as the spider spins its web out of the centre of his own being."
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"In Truth, I have never been separated from God for a single instant."
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"Love is everywhere present, in and through all of life. It only needs to be recognized and used, and when we understand this we find that there is no obstacle that can stand in its way."
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"Love is the self-givingness of the Spirit through the desire of Life to express Itself in terms of creation. Love is free from condemnation, even as it is free from fear. Love is a cosmic force whose sweep is irresistible. Love is the central flame of the universe, nay, the very fire itself. Love is self-givingness through creation, the impartation of the Divine through the human." Ernest Holmes, 'The Science of Mind'
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"There are no barriers where love is the bridge."
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"Within each person is a center of love....Now is the time to send it forth, like ripples from a pebble cast into the still waters of a lake in ever-widening circles."
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